'twixt
See also: twixt
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]The apostrophe (’) indicates omission of the first syllable of atwixt or betwixt.
Preposition
[edit]'twixt
- Alternative form of twixt
- c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 299, column 2:
- [H]e had himſelfe / The Lands and VVaters, ’twixt your Throne and his, / Meaſur’d, to looke vpon you; vvhom he loues […]
- 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “Canto I”, in Hudibras. The First Part. […], London: […] J. G. for Richard Marriot, […], →OCLC, page 26:
- Thither the Knight his courſe did ſtear, / To keep the peace ’tvvixt Dog and Bear; […]
- 1702, [John Pomfret], “Upon the Divine Attributes. A Pindarick Essay.”, in Miscellany Poems on Several Occasions, […], London: […] John Place […], →OCLC, stanza VI, pages 141–142:
- 1745, [Edward Young], “Night the Ninth and Last. The Consolation. Containing, among Other Things, I. A Moral Survey of the Nocturnal Heavens. II. A Night-address to the Deity. To which are Annex’d, Some Thoughts, Occasioned by the Present Juncture: […]”, in [The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality], London: […] G[eorge] Hawkins, […]; [a]nd sold by M[ary] Cooper, […], →OCLC, page 36:
- In thy nocturnal Rove, one Moment halt, / ’Tvvixt Stage and Stage, of Riot, and Cabal; […]
- 1851 May 29, Sojourner Truth, reported by Frances D[ana] Gage, “Ohio [Reminiscences by Frances D. Gage. Sojourner Truth. [Ain’t I a Woman?]]”, in Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, editors, History of Woman Suffrage […], volume I (1848–1861), Rochester, N.Y.; London: Susan B. Anthony; Charles Mann […], published 1887, →OCLC, page 116:
- I thik dat ’twixt de niggers of de Souf and de womin at de Norf, all talkin’ ’bout rights, de white men will be in a fix pretty soon.
- 1899, W[illiam] B[utler] Yeats, “The Hosting of the Sidhe”, in The Wind among the Reeds, New York, N.Y.; London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, →OCLC, page 2:
- The host is rushing ’twixt night and day, / And where is there hope or deed as fair? / Caolte tossing his burning hair, / And Niamh calling Away, come away.